{"id":5395,"date":"2022-02-01T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/uncategorized\/change-and-identity\/"},"modified":"2024-01-29T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T13:17:11","slug":"change-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/governance\/change-and-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Change and identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In December’ s Director<\/a>, I wrote at length about the identity grief associated with change, because I see and believe that every change is a grieving process.<\/p>\n\n

Change is usually linked to a change in identity, and identity is our deepest layer, and when it is threatened, it brings up a lot of deep feelings and triggers a survival mechanism. We mourn the previous situation, no matter how important or insignificant.<\/p>\n\n

Sometimes we can mourn the previous great coffee machine in the office, sometimes its necessity after an unexpected redundancy or lay-off.<\/p>\n\n

No matter how profound or superficial the change may be in the eyes of others, our emotional reactions always follow a similar path to the loss of a loved one. After all, we are the closest people to ourselves, and the loss of our own identity is a process of mourning with its own pain and deep emotions. It’s a question of accepting or suppressing emotions – or more precisely, “postponing their processing”.<\/p>\n\n

How deeply a change in our lives affects us is always very personal and depends on similar situations stored in our subconscious that we are not aware of.<\/p>\n\n

Understanding the emotional journey of change, both for ourselves and for others, increases empathy, reduces stress and brings us closer to our true goals.<\/p>\n\n

Read more about the Director online <\/a>or in 2021. in the December issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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